Syntax highlighting in terminal

I was just quickly flipping through code on a terminal and got to thinking that it would be pretty handy to be able to syntax highlight when using head or grep without having to open an editor. Luckily, I remembered Pygmentize was pretty handy when syntax highlighting in LaTeX so I wondered if they had an equivalent output for terminal. It turns out they do (in standard or 256 color no less) so in a couple minutes I had a really short script for highlighting code at the terminal saved it to bin/ccat and was ready to go. Pygmentize really is impressive. Here's the script if anyone else is looking to do the same:

BASH:

#!/bin/bash#!/bin/bash

if[ ! -t 0];then

file=/dev/stdin

elif[ -f $1];then

file=$1

else

echo"Usage: $0 code.c"

echo"or e.g. head code.c|$0"

exit1

fi

pygmentize -f terminal -g $file

It just looks for stdin and if it doesn't find it it looks for a file name or takes direct input. Obviously it requires Pygmentize (which is really easy to install if you already have Python).